Kakashi couldn't believe his good luck. Kitsune. The young girl that he had worked with, taken orders from, and fallen in love with-was Minato's daughter.

He was so shocked by his discovery that he couldn't help himself, he started laughing almost hysterically. It was just so damn funny. Really it was. Naru took a step back away from the man as he started laughing, one of his hands against his head, half hiding his face as he laughed. He sounded like a lunatic. Like he had lost his mind and was over joyed by the mental freedom he was feeling.

All well and good, but he was really freaking her out. "Um...s-sir? Are you okay?"

Are you sane? Should I run? I want to run. Should I try it? Just toss some random person at him and take off. Naru thought as she took another step back and froze when she caught him peeking at her from between his fingers as his laughter died down to a chuckle.

"I'm fine Naru. I merely find this situation funny." Kakashi said as he suddenly seemed to sober up, and was now looking as serious as he had before he had started laughing.

"Oh. Is that all?" She said stupidly. There for a second she had thought that she was in deep shit.

"Don't you even want to know why?" Kakashi asked curiously as he took a step closer to her.

"No. Not at all. The less I know the better off I'll be." She deadpanned as he took another step towards her. His lips curved up in an amused smile.

She looked down at his feet for a second and when she looked up all she saw was something heading for her face, she closed her eyes and stood there, braced to be hit, when she felt his palm against her cheek and her eyes snapped open, and she stared at him as if he had just smacked her. She had such a shocked expression on her face that his heart clenched painfully in his chest.

"That makes me sad Naru. A woman should want to know about her future husband." He said after a second or so and she paled and looked at him like he was crazy. And maybe he was, but he had promised himself, and her father, a long time ago that he would marry her and give her his name and his life as her shield. To better protect her. And he would have, weather she was his Kitsune or not.

But he might not have loved her.

The fact that he had finally found Kitsune and she and Naru were the very same meant that he could love her-and did love her, easily.

Naru bristled slightly. Oh fuck no!

Did he just say that he was going to be her husband? She'd scratch his eyes out first!

She smacked his hand away from her face and stepped up close, her violet eyes alight with feminine fury and rage as she tipped her head back and glared at him before growling, "If you ever come near me again...I will fuck you up in so many ways that your own mother will not be able to look at you, to identify your remains-" She put her hand against his chest and gave him a small push back then snapped. "Got that pretty boy."

He smiled at her, his dark blue eye sparkling with interest. Oh he understood alright. He understood that he was going to have to woo her to get into her good graces before he could move in for the 'kill'. And when he was done two things would have happened.

1) Naru would be his wife. And 2) Their first child would be on it's way.

"Alright Naru. I'll back off." Kakashi said easily, knowing that pushing her any further right now would end in disaster for him. And push her further away from him. He bowed to her and then vanished in a swirl of leaves before she could say anything else. But he didn't go very far. He stayed several feet away from her at all times, always keeping her with in his sight as she shrugged off their meeting and started walking through the village again.

Naru made it to the tower an hour later than she had planned and found her little office beside Sarutobi-jiji's former office in a state of total chaos. There were papers everywhere and Genma was holding some burning papers over the trash can with a dark expression on his face muttering something strange under his breath as he dropped the papers before they could burn his fingers and grabbed the next few pieces and tossed them into the trash can causing the flames to jump dangerously.

"Genma! What the hell do you think you're doing?" Naru yelled at him, causing the Jounin to jump and accidentally stick his foot in the trash can. He yelped and jumped up and started jumping around yelling.

"Crap! I'm on fire! Put me out! Put me out!"

"Baka! Hold still and don't you dare set anything else on fire!" Naru growled as she did the hand signs for a controlled water jutsu and aimed the small current at him, easily dousing him and putting out the fire that had attached itself to his foot and his pants leg. Genma stood jumping around in place, dripping wet (now) and scowling at her.

"Where have you been Hokage-sama?" Genma growled at her as he realised that it was finally safe to put his leg down now that the fire was out.

"I think the better question should be. What did you think youwere doing setting some of my papers on fire?" Naru asked as she walked across the room and pushed him back down in her chair and grabbed the hell of his foot and lifted it so that she could check it.

"I'm not hurt Naru. You put the flames out before I got burned."

She made a humming sound. Even so, his leg hair was terribly singed. "So what were you doing burning my papers?" She asked again. Genma propped himself up and glared at her, deciding that he would rather sulk than talk to her right at that moment. He still wasn't used to her acting like a momma bear with one of it's young.

She ran her finger tips along his calf, around his ankle, subtly using some of her medical jutsu knowledge to heal any small burns that she found before they could start hurting him. "I was burning the shit that the council sent. They're trying to get you to sign you're own death warrant again. So I thought that if the papers got lost, they couldn't complain about you shooting them down."

"That's brilliant Genma, but it won't work for long." Naru said as she let go of his foot and let him put it back on the floor.

"Yeah. Yeah. So where were you?"

Naru sighed and rolled her eyes then asked. "Genma, do you know a guy named Kakashi Hatake?"

Genma perked up and leaned forward in the seat. "Yeah...I've heard of him-" He was only the most cunning, single minded, and maybe even as strong as Naru herself as the Hokage. He had a great record, had spent the past nine years as an Anbu as an assassin and espionage specialist, and was the last of one of the great five founding clans. "Why?"

"Because I ran into him while I was in the village."

"Oh. I bet that was fun." He said sarcastically, knowing that if she had run into the enigmatic man that he had probably done something stupid like bump into her and walked off without saying he was sorry or something.

"Not really. He said he was going to marry me..." Naru said as she looked away and blushed a little bit, missing the way Genma's eyes widened and his face went chalk white.

Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit! Hatake had proposed to Naru. Why? For what purpose? He hadn't been aware that they even knew each other.

He reached out and grasped Naru's hands in his, drawing her attention back to him and asked. "Naru did you ever meet him before today?" And if so, why hadn't she mentioned meeting him before?

"No. I don't recall ever meeting him." And she wasn't about to say anything to Genma about how Kakashi had pointed out that she was wearing his ring. Especially since she seriously doubted that it was his ring.

Genma frowned. Then if she had never met him and he had just walked up to her and proposed either one of two things had happened. He had imprinted on her as soon as he saw her. Or she had caught his interest in some way for some ungodly reason. Either way he looked at it the man would have approached her seriously which meant that he would be watching her. Very closely.